Finally, some competition in cable access

[about_average]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/t...business-development-in-chattanooga.html?_r=1

For less than $70 a month, consumers enjoy an ultrahigh-speed fiber-optic connection that transfers data at one gigabit per second. That is 50 times the average speed for homes in the rest of the country, and just as rapid as service in Hong Kong, which has the fastest Internet in the world.

It takes 33 seconds to download a two-hour, high-definition movie in Chattanooga, compared with 25 minutes for those with an average high-speed broadband connection in the rest of the country.

 

[Liar]

Municipal fiber? Reads. Yep, municipal fiber.

A major city or two needs to get on that, just to show it can scale up, and put the fear of God (or competition) into Time Warner and Comcast.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Municipal fiber? Reads. Yep, municipal fiber.

A major city or two needs to get on that, just to show it can scale up, and put the fear of God (or competition) into Time Warner and Comcast.

No shit....

http://postgradproblems.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fc83785fce75fbfafe4ef32c60d585cd.jpg

 

[Liar]

But that would probably be communism. Or something.

 

[lovetoread]

I could not stop laughing at that south park ep.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Municipal fiber? Reads. Yep, municipal fiber.

A major city or two needs to get on that, just to show it can scale up, and put the fear of God (or competition) into Time Warner and Comcast.

Isn't Comcast buying Time Warner?

 

[pointless]

that's great, but if they tried that here in my shitty town i just know they'd fuck it up.

or put in annoying ass data limits just because they could.

yeah, i'm not a fan of my town's government. cunts. plow my damned road better!

 

[about_average]

Isn't Comcast buying Time Warner?

Trying to, but I think it's not finalized yet. But I'll be surprised if it's not approved.

 

[about_average]

The US House comes to the aid of cable companies.

Confused that supposedly local government-oriented Republicans are squashing local initiatives aimed at bringing choice and competition to the monopolistic telecom market? The Internet may bring people closer together, but Internet lobbying dollars make for some interesting political bedfellows, and big telecom companies spend millions pushing their agendas in state and federal legislatures.

The amendment was proposed by Rep. Marsha Blackburn, which is another irony, seeing as Chattanooga, in Blackburn's own state of Tennessee, has become a poster child for local government successfully selling high-speed broadband directly to consumers. EPB, the city-owned electric company, offers one of the fastest and least expensive Internet services in the country. Its 1Gbps Internet -- 50 times the average speed for homes in the United States -- costs less than $70 per month.

http://www.infoworld.com/t/internet...mpanies-lawmakers-gang-local-providers-246976